Last week we posted our last Backlist Book List for 2021. We hope you have had as much fun exploring the curated lists as we had in creating them!
- Nine lists: 6 read-alike lists, 3 themed lists.
- Ten years of nominations, finalists, and winners.
- 154 recommended books for readers toddler to teen.
What made them particularly fun was discovering books in categories you wouldn’t expect – like shark poetry or a graphic novel memoir about dinosaurs.
August is here, and that means Backlist Book List summer is over and it is time to start turning our attention toward preparing for #Cybils2021.
Before we go, we thought we’d bring the summer together with one big list of lists. You know, just in case you’re looking for some books readers thought were award-worthy.
BOOKLISTS FOR READ-ALIKES
- 8 Recommendations for books to read if you liked Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch by Julie Abe
[Cybils 2020 Finalist, Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Category] - 10 Recommendations for books to read if you liked Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam.
[Cybils 2020 Finalist, Young Adult Fiction Category] - 13 Recommendations to read if you liked Frankie Sparks and the Class Pet by Megan Frazer Blakemore.
[Cybils 2019 Winner, Early Chapter Book Category] - 8 Recommendations if you liked Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
[Cybils 2019 Finalist, Middle Grade Fiction Category]
BOOKLISTS ON A THEME
- All Kinds of Dinosaurs [24 titles]
- All Things Baseball [19 titles]
- Pandemics and the Science of Solving Medical Mysteries [13 titles]
- Shark Week Is Coming! [19 titles]
- Verse Novels about Contemporary Societal Issues [10 titles]
- Voices for Social Change [40 titles]